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Nature Structural Biology  3, 671 - 675 (1996)
doi:10.1038/nsb0896-671

Structure of astacin with a transition-state analogue inhibitor

Frank Grams1, 5, Vincent Dive2, Athanasios Yiotakis3, Irene Yiallouros4, Stamatia Vassiliou3, Robert Zwilling4, Wolfram Bode1 & Walter Stöcker4

  1Max-Planck-lnstitut für Biochemie, Abt. Strukturforschung, Am Klopferspitz 18a, D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany

  2CEA, Departement d'Ingenierie et d'Etudes des Proteines, C.E. Saclay, 91191 Gif Sur Yvette Cedex, France

  3Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zogratu, Athens 15771, Greece

  4Zoologisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg, Physiologie, Im Neuenheimer Feld 230, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

  5Present address: Boehringer Mannheim GmbH, Sandhofer Str. 116, Chemical Research, D-68305 Mannheim, Germany

The structure of the zinc peptidase astacin in complex with a phosphinic peptide suggests that a special role is played by the side chain of a zinc-bound tyrosine, which is shifted to form a hydrogen bond to the phosphinyl group—a mimic of the carboxyanion of the transition state.

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